We already had that here once. It got abused by people that use the forum as a personal agenda forum. It was called reputation and it was based on an algorithm much like eBay was where one bad buyer can set your reputation as seller back. In other words one bad feedback can ruin a whole year of great transactions. Just do what needs to be done and call BS what it is. I recently asked someone to quote where I had run down his tree as he had posted I did. All was fixed. Truth always trumps bull shit. It's just not always tasty if you know what I mean.
We don't need all that nonsense...just a dislike button with a username attached! Besides...I have been here since Fall of 07, just a few months after the debut of Bnut, and do not recall such a feature...perhaps a different forum??
Remember BNut1.0... You saw the username, the post count, and the number of likes... In general, if you added a dislikes to that summary it would be far easier for anyone to determine how much weight to apply to any response...
I encourage you to look at the likes section of the members tab...pretty useless information if you don't know the people....For those of us that know the users well, I think it is easy to recognize that there are several names that really haven't contributed anything but dribble to conversations here... a dislike button could easily rectify this misinformation...
Of course a dislike button could be misused...just as the like button is currently often misused...
Common on guys!! This is a public forum, as I have been told on more than one occasion, and as such ALL INFORMATION is subject to feedback....good and bad. Shouldn't the ability to dislike something be just as important as the ability to like something???
AS of today I am boycotting the like button until I have equal access to a dislike button!! That should bring about fast and effective change!!